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ABSTRACT Students experience stress during their academic years. This stress is related to issues including, financial issues, health problems, social issues and academic difficulties. Stress can either negatively or positively influence academic achievement, the aim of this study is to explore the relationship between stress and academic performance of the students and identify sources of stress effecting academic performance. Problems like lack of mutual help from the class mates or batch mates, linguistic barriers, high workload, lack of interest in some of the courses, lack of healthy teacher-students relationships etc were causing a lot of stress among the college students. Persistent stress leads to low self-esteem of students, difficulty in handling different situation, sleep disorder, decreased attention and abnormal appetite which eventually effects the academic achievement and personal growth of students Academic related factors are the major cause of stress in students. It is important that students should be counseling and trained to manage stress effectively otherwise it can adversely influence their health and academic performance.